MICHAEL REDHILL

Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller PrizeJean Mason has a doppelganger.Shes never seen her, but others* swear they have.*others | noun. A peculiar collection of drug addicts, scam artists, philanthropists, philosophers and vagrants - the regulars of Bellevue Square.Jean lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two kids. The proud owner of a thriving bookstore, she doesnt rattle easily - not like she used to. But after two of her customers insist theyve seen her double, Jean decides to investigate. Curiosity grows to obsession and soon Jeans concerns shift from the identity of the woman, to her very own.Funny, dark and surprising, Bellevue Square takes readers down the existentialist rabbit hole and asks the question: what happens when the sense youve made of things stops making sense?

Returning from an exhibition of his photographs, J G Hallam's ship is lost in a violent storm on Lake Ontario - and the strongbox holding the photographs is lost. A century and a half later, Professor David Hollis speculates that this important historical record lies in the landfill where the city's new Union Arena is to be built.

The only true account of the trial and punishment of the good doctor, Gustavus Katterfelto, the greatest natural philosopher who ever lived or ever will live by his confederate and friend Roger Gossage."My name is Roger Gossage. I pray my handwriting be legible to you, but as I am a-ship, I risk the swells playing havoc upon my scrawl. Whichever lenses or magnifiers you may require to read on, I beg you fetch them now..."